We all know or have seen people who are selfish. They only care about their needs and wants. In the novel Of Mice and Men Lennie is described as a “Huge man with a shapeless face, large eyes, with sloping shoulders”(Pg2). Lennie only wants to tend the rabbits. He does not care what anyone else wants, he is just selfish. Lennie shows no respect for any of the other characters. He continues to ignore and disregard what people do for him. When he kills the mice in the field he lies to George disrespecting his morals. “I ain't got nothin’, George. Honest”(Pg5). He lies to George because he cares more about the animals than the respect he has for George. Lennie continues to show his disrespect toward the other characters. He only
This also shows the overpowering control George has over Lennie’s conscience, and the consequence that Lennie can’t remember his own actions, only the stories George repeats. He is never truly angry with Lennie for his petty mistakes, he is simply thinking of the limitations of their dreams because of Lennie’s unpredictable actions. It seems George can only control Lennie by threatening him with the thing he cares about most which is the farm, “But you ain’t gonna get in no trouble, because if you do, I won’t let you tend the rabbits” he threatens, trying to make Lennie remember the importance of his actions (36). George is constantly complaining that he could have a better life and even have a farm without Lennie to look after, but he also wants a companion. Lennie is often simple minded and easily influenced, but intuitive enough to manipulate George’s loneliness, “If you don’t want me George I can go up in that cave over there and leave,” George quickly denies this saying “No, look I was just foolin’ Lennie, ‘cause I want you to stay with me” (20).
He must do everything for Lennie. “You never had none you crazy bastard. I got both of ‘em here. Think I
In the historical fiction novella, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, George’s decision to kill Lennie at the end of the novel was justified. Lennie Smalls is always with his best friend George. He is incapable of doing many things because he is mentally disabled. George normally makes decisions for him and in this case, it’s about Lennie suffering and staying alive, or ending his life peacefully. Curley is a character that played a big role.
But the opinions of people and their advantages get them only so far. Lennie has a bleeding heart and never in his mind would think or do something to harm a person and or a animal, at the same time himself not being able to understand
Lennie's inability to comprehend that what he did was wrong would
Spoiler Alert: At the end of the book “Of Mice and Men”, George kills Lennie. It was a controversial death, with people from one side saying that George’s decision was justified, while others disagree and say that it was not justified. George’s decision to kill Lennie was justified by the fact that he had always looked out for Lennie, Lennie was going to die anyway, and he couldn’t bear to watch Lennie be tortured by the other workers. First, George had been looking out for Lennie since before the book started.
Throughout the book Lennie may seem as he is a little boy trapped in a man’s body, but this can have its issues. Having him around people can be a risk even though it can seem a little exaggerated it is true. This is simply just because he isn’t aware of what he does. In the book it has him say “Why do you got to get killed?”
Of Mice and Men 1. George constantly stands up for Lennie because he is his friend and is preventing anything from destroying their goal of acquiring their own farm. George's main purpose is to protect Lennie in any way possible. When Curly starts to interrogate Lennie, George stands up for him because he knows if Lennie starts to speak Curly will notice Lennie's mental issues and will not get the job on the ranch.
Lennie is very childish in the mind, he does things without really knowing if they are harmful or not. This in turn gets George in numerous binds when he’s having to help Lennie out so it doesn’t cost them their jobs or their money. At the end of the book, Lennie accidentally kills the ranch owner’s son’s wife. Which causes all the guys to gain a vengeance to kill Lennie. Shortly thereafter, Lennie runs off in fear of his life from the guys, this leaves George to come to his rescue.
Of Mice and Men has always had a bad vibe towards it, that is because the problems that are presented in the book are still relevant modern America.. John Steinbeck's masterpiece shows a world where the simplest dream can be extremely hard to achieve. Steinbeck shows that the 1930s is a place in time that cannot even be imagined in this modern time. The novella shows how the character deals with the feeling of uncertainty, loneliness , and how each character has their way of dealing with it. Every character has their only and well defined personality, some will have good morals and others will have bad morals. Characters will be victims or villains and some may even be both, one must understand the difference.
On page 103, Lennie says to George, “I done another bad thing.” He says this after he killed the puppy and Curley’s wife. He feels dreadful about it, but just can 't change it. That is why Lennie is a static character.
Although described as a rather large man, Lennie’s role between the two men is very childlike. Lennie is treated like a child by George because Lennie does not have the maturity or mental capability to make decisions for himself. For example, George must continuously remind Lennie of the spot he must come to if in trouble because Lennie cannot focus long enough to process this information. Lennie is also fairly unintelligent and blindly loyal to George. This loyalty is seen when George tells Lennie to jump into a river, and Lennie obeys even though he is unable to swim.
This trait of Lennie 's affects the story in a bad way because since he likes to pet things so much, he pets them too much that he kills them on accident. Lennie has done so much to ruin his world in the book. When Lennie gets to a new place to live, he accidently kills mice, a puppy, and a person, but says he 's sorry which makes him seem sympathetic. Steinbeck was successful at making Lennie sympathetic because he cares about everything and will always be there for George but other characters keep sizing up to him and he doesn’t know
In addition, the kindness and compassion George shows to Lennie must end with Lennie’s
Although Lennie loves mice, he is inept at handling feeble creatures. George notices the mouse and addresses it by saying that: “‘That mouse ain’t fresh, Lennie...you’ve broke it pettin’ it’” (Steinbeck 9). The euphemism that George uses for death suggests that the mouse’ death was not intentional, nor sadistic. Lennie roots his intentions in kindness, but his strength overpowers this emotion.